Thoughts, comments, news, and reflections about healthcare IT from Microsoft's worldwide health senior director Bill Crounse, MD, on how information technology can improve healthcare delivery and services around the world.
Cost versus worth of technology in healthcare
Two articles caught my attention this week amid of the flurry of news about jobs, the market and the economy. The first, Not retiring at 65: Physician goes from anti-EHR to pro-ACO , was about a 65 year old physician in Tucson who is not only delaying...(read more)
A Whirlwind of Activity at WoHIT eHealth Week in Copenhagen, Denmark
The view from my room high atop the Bella Sky Comwell Hotel pretty much symbolizes what my past two days have been like at the World of Health IT Conference in Copenhagen – whirlwind . Well, actually the view is of a gigantic wind turbine that supplies...(read more)
Research4Life “Library in a Box” to be honored at GBCHealth Awards in NYC
A public-private partnership known as Research4Life that is sponsored in part by Microsoft, has been commended by the Global Business Coalition on Health and will be honored during that organization’s annual GBCHealth conference and awards dinner in New...(read more)
Health Tech Spending and Profitability - Chicken, Egg or Omelet?
As someone whose entire career has been steeped in clinical medicine and technology, I’m a big fan of the American publication, Hospitals and Health Networks . I especially like reading the commentaries on the publication’s digital feed, H&HN...(read more)
Microsoft HealthVault opens to the world……. or at least a lot more of it
Whenever I travel outside the US, and even inside the US, I tend to get lots of questions about Microsoft’s platform for personal health records, HealthVault . I say “platform” because HealthVault is much more than a site for storing your personal...(read more)
Health ICT 2012 – Pain, Progress and Promise
After two weeks back in my Redmond office it is time again to hit the road. I swear I hardly remember last week due to the mental fog of jetlag after a two and a half week sojourn in New Zealand and Australia. Next week I’m heading in the...(read more)
Thoughts, comments, news, and reflections about healthcare IT from Microsoft's worldwide health senior director Bill Crounse, MD, on how information technology can improve healthcare delivery and services around the world.
